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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Trustees of Columbia College . . 5 

Historical Sketch of Columbia College 7 

STATUTES OF THE COLJ^EGE. 

CHAPTER I. 

Of the President 17 

CHAPTER II. 

Of the Board of the College 18 

CHAPTER III. 

Of the Course of Study 20 

CHAPTER IV. 

Of Admission . , 32 

CHAPTER V. 

Of Attendance 24 

CHAPTER VI. 

Of Discipline ! . , 25 

CHAPTER VII. 

Of the Proficiency of Students 26 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Of Academic Honors 28 

CHAPTER IX. 
Of Commencements 29 

CHAPTER X. 
Of Vacations 31 

CHAPTER XI. 

Of the Library 31 

CHAPTER XII. 

Of Free Scholarships 32 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Of Foundations 33 



CONTENTS. 



STATUTE! FOR ORGANIZING THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

CHAPTER I. PAGE 
Of the ^»resident 35 

CHAPTER II. 

Of the Faculty of the School of Mines 35 

CHAPTER III. 
Of Admission 36 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of the Course of Study 37 

CHAPTER V. 

(^f the Proficiency of Students and of Graduation 39 

CHAPTER VI. 

Of Discipline 40 

CHAPTER VII. 

Of Fees for Tuition 40 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Of Commencement and Degrees 41 

STATUTE FOM ORGANIZING THE SCHOOI OF LAW. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the President 42 

CHAPTER II. 
(^f the Warden ' 43 

CHAPTER III. 

Of the Faculty .' 43 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of Admissions 44 

CHAPTER V. 

Of the Course of Study 45 

CHAPTER VI. 

Of Degrees 46 

MESOIjVTIONS 

Providing for a School of Mkdicinb 47 

Providing for a School of Political Science 48 



TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



NAMES. RESIDENCES. 

HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Chairman of the Board. .251 East 17th St. 

SAMUEL B. RUGGLES, LL.D Westminster Hotel. 

WILLIAM BETTS, LL D 132 East 30th Street. 

GOUVERNEUR M. OGDEN, Treasurer, 187 Fulton, h. 9 West 10th St. 

EDWARD L. BEADLE, M.D Poughkeepsie. 

HORATIO POTTER, S.T.D., LL.D., D.C.L 38 East 22d Street. 

LEWIS M. RUTHERFURD 175 Second Avenue. 

JOHN C. JAY, M.D 9 West 47th Street. 

WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 49 West 23d Street. 

MORGAN DIX, S.T.D 27 West 25th Street. 

FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LLD., L.H.D., College Green. 

SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, LL.D 12 West 22d Street. 

STEPHEN P. NASH 11 West 19th Street. 

JOSEPH W. HARPER. Jr 562 Fifth Avenue. 

CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M.D 266 Madison Avenue. 

A. ERNEST VANDERPOEL 114 East 16th Street. 

CHARLES A. SILLIMAN 258 West 21st Street. 

FREDERICK A. SCHERMERHORN 61 University Place. 

GERARD BEEKMAN, Clerk ... .149 Broadway, h. 5 East 34th Street. 

ABRAM N; little JOHN, S.T.D 170 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. 

JOHN J. TOWNSEND 131 Fifth Avenue. 

EDWARD MITCHELL ' 45 West 55th Street. 

WILLIAM BAYARD CUTTING 18 West 57th Street. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



The establishment of a college in the city of New York was 
many years in agitation before the design was carried into 
effect. At length, under an act of Assembly passed in Decem- 
ber, 1746, and other similar acts wliich followed, moneys were 
raised by public lottery "for the encouragement of learning and 
towards the founding a college" within the colony. These 
moneys were, in November, 1*751, vested in trustees ; of whom, 
ten in number, seven were members of the Church of England, 
and some of these seven were also vestrymen of Trinity Church. 

These circumstarces, together with the liberal grant of land 
to the college by Trinity Church, excited apprehensions of a 
design to introduce a church-establishment within the province, 
and caused violent opposition to the plan, as soon as it became 
known, of obtaining a royal charter for the college. 

This opposition, however, being at last in a great measure sur- 
mounted, the trustees in November, 1753, invited Dr. Samuel 
Johnson, of Connecticut, to be President of the intended college. 
Dr. Johnson consequently removed to New York in the month of 
April following, and in July, 1754, commenced the instruction of 
a class of students in a room of the school-house belonging to 
Trinity Church; but he would not absolutely accept of the Presi- 
dency until after the passing of the charter. This took place on 
the 31st of October in the same year, 1754; from which period 
the existence of the college is properly to be dated. The gov- 
ernors of the college, named in the charter, are the archbishop 



8 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COIAIMBTA COLLEGE. 

of Canterbury, and tlie first Lord commissioner for trade and 
plantations, both empowered to act by proxies; the lieutenant- 
governor of the province, and several other public officers; to- 
gether witli the rector of Trinity Church, tlie senior minister of 
the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, the ministers of the 
German Lutheran Church, of the French Church, of the Presby- 
terian Congregation, and the president of the college, all 
ex officio, and twenty-four of the principal gentlemen of the 
city. The college was to be knoAvn by the name of Kin(i''s 
College. Previously to the passing of the chartei*, a parcel of 
ground to the westward of Broadway, bounded by Barclay, 
Church, and Murray streets, and by the Hudson River, had been 
destined by the vestry of Trinity Church as a site for the college 
edifice; and, accordingly, after the charter was granted, a grant 
of the land was made on the 13th of May, 1755. On a portion 
of this plot, at the foot of Upper Robinson street, as it was 
at first called, but afterwards Park place, the college was subse- 
quently built, and there stood for one hundred and three years, 
until its removal to another site, in 1857, occasioned by the de- 
mands of the business of the city. The part of the land thus 
granted by Trinity Church, not occupied for college purposes, 
was leased, and became a very valuable endowment to the 
college. 

The sources whence the funds of the institution were derived, 
besides the proceeds of the lotteries above mentioned, were the 
voluntary contributions of private individuals in this country, 
and sums obtained by agents who were subsequently sent to 
England and France. Li May, 1760, the college buildings began 
to be occupied. In March, 1 763, Dr. Johnson resigned his office of 
president, and the Rev. Di-. Myles Cooper, of Oxford, who had 
previously been appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy, and 
assistant to the president, was elected in his place. \\\ 1767 a 
grant of land was obtained, under the government of Sir Henry 
Moore, of twenty-four thousand acres, situated in the northern 
parts of the province of New York; but by the terms of the 
treaty which the State of New York concluded with Vermont 
upon its erection into a separate State, this, among other grants 
of land lying within its limits, was annulled, and the college 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 9 

consequently lost a tract of great value, inasmuch as it con- 
stituted the county town of the county in which it was situated. 

In August, of the year 1767, a medical school was established 
in the college. 

The following account of the institution, supposed to be writ- 
ten by Dr. Cooper, shows its condition previously to the war of 
the Revolution : 

" Since the passing of the charter, the institution hath received 
great emolument by grants from his most gracious majesty 
King George the Third, and by liberal contributions from many 
of the nobility and gentry in the parent country; from the so- 
ciety for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, and 
from several public-spirited gentlemen in America and else- 
where. By means of these and other benefactions the governors 
of the college have been enabled to extend their plan of educa- 
tion almost as diffusely as any college in Europe; herein being 
taught by proper masters and professors, who are chosen by the 
governors and president, Divinity, Natural Law, Physic, Logic, 
Ethics, Metaj)hysics, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Astron- 
omy, Geography, History, Chronology, Rhetoric, Hebrew, 
Greek, Latin, Modern Languages, the Belles -Lettres, and what- 
ever else of literature may tend to accomplish the pupils as 
scholars and gentlemen. 

" To the college is also annexed a grammar school for the due 
preparation of those who propose to complete their education 
with the arts and sciences. 

" All students but those in medicine are obliged to lodge and 
diet in the college, unless they are particularly exempted by the 
governor or president; and the edifice is surrounded by a high 
fence, which also encloses a large court and garden, and a porter 
constantly attends at the front gate, which is closed at ten 
o'clock each evening in summer, and nine in winter; after which 
hours, the names of all that come in are delivered weekly to the 
president. 

"The college is situated on a dry gravelly soil, about one 
hundred and fifty yards from the bank of the Hudson River, 
which it overlooks; commanding, from the eminence on which 
it stands, a most extensive and beautiful prospect of the oppo- 



10 IIISTOEICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

site shore and country of New Jersey, the city and island of 
New York. Long Island, Staten Island, New York bay and its 
islands, the Narrows, forming the mouth of the harbor, etc, etc.; 
and being totally unencumbered by any adjacent buildings and 
admitting the purest circulation of air from the river, and 
every other quarter, has the benefit of as agreeable and healthy 
a situation as can possibly be conceived. 

" Visitations by the governors are quarterly; at which times 
premiums of books, silver medals, etc., are adjudged to the most 
deserving. 

"This seminary hath already produced a number of gentle- 
men, who do great honor to their professions, the place of their 
education, and themselves, in divinity, law, medicine, etc., etc.? 
in this and various other colonies, both on the American conti- 
nent and West India Islands; and the college is annually in- 
creasing as well in students as reputation." 

In consequence of the dispute between this and the parent 
country, Dr. Cooper returned to England, and the Rev. Benja- 
min Moore was appointed prmses pro tempore during the absence 
of Dr. Cooper, who, however, did not return. 

On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the business 
of the college was almost entirely broken up, and it was not 
until after the return of peace that its affairs were again regu- 
larly attended to. 

In May, 1784, the college, upon its own application, was 
erected into a university, and its corporate title changed from 
King's College to that of Regents of the University. New 
professors were appointed and a medical department was es- 
tablished. 

The college continued under that government until April, 
1787, when, finding the attempt to establish a university unsuc- 
cessful, it was restored to its original position under the present 
name of Columbia College. 

The original charter, with necessary alterations, was con- 
firmed, and the college placed under twenty-nine trustees, who 
were to exercise their functions until their number should be 
reduced, by death, resignation, or removal from the state, to 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 11 

twenty-four, after which all vacancies in their Board were to be 
filled by their own choice. 

At the same time a new body was created, called by the same 
name, "The Regents of the University," under which all the 
seminaries of learning mentioned in the act creating it were 
placed by the legislature. This boiy still exists under its origi- 
nal name. 

In May, 1787, Dr. Wm. Samuel Johnson, son of the first pres- 
ident, was elected president of Columbia College. During the 
previous vacancy of the presidential chair, the professors had 
presided in turn ; and certificates were given to graduates, in 
place of regular diplomas. 

In the beginning of the year 1792, the medical school was 
placed upon a more respectable and efficient footing than 
before. 

Dr. Johnson resigned the office of president in July, 1800, and 
was succeeded the year following by the Rev. Dr. Wharton, 
who resigned his office at the end of about seven months. 

Bishop Moore succeeded Dr. Wharton as president. His eccle- 
siastical duties were such, that he was not expected to take an 
active part in the business of the college, except on particular 
occasions. The chief management of its concerns devolved upon 
its professors. 

In 1809, the requisites for entrance into college, to take effect 
the following year, were very much raised, and a new course of 
study and system of discipline were established. 

A new amended charter was obtained from the legislature in 
1810; by which the power of the college to lease its real estate 
for twenty-one years was extended to sixty-three years. 

Bishop Moore resigned his office as President in May, 18 II, in 
order to make room for some person who might devote his whole 
time and attention to the college; and in June following, a new 
otiioe, styled that of provost, was created. The provost was to 
supply the place of the president in his absence, and was to con- 
duct the classical studies of the senior class. Shortly after this 
new arrangement, the Rev. Wm. Harris was elected president, 
and the Rev. John M. Mason, provost. 

In consequence of the establishment of the College of Physi- 



12 UISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

cians and Surgeons in New York, the Medical School of Colum- 
bia College was, in November, 1813, discontinued. 

The provost resigned his office in 1816; since which time 
the college has been under the sole superintendence of a presi- 
dent. 

In 1814, a grant Avas made to the college by the legislature, of 
.a tract of land on Manhattan Island, of about twenty acres, 
which had been occupied as a botanic garden by the late Dr. 
Hosack, and had been purchased of him by the state. The grant 
■was accompanied by the condition that the college should be re- 
moved to the tract so granted within twelve years. In 1819 
this condition was repealed. At that time the lands were valued 
at two hundred and fifty dollars an acre, or the whole at five 
thousand dollars. These lands, in the present map of the city, 
are embraced between the Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and extend 
from Forty-seventh to Fifty-first street. The lapse of half a 
century and the gradual growth of the city, have, of course, 
greatly increased their value. 

In September of 1817, steps were taken by the trustees for a 
thorough repair of the old edifice, which was in a very decayed 
state, and for the erection of additional buildings. Before the 
end of the year 1820, the proposed alterations and additions were 
completed. 

At the close of the year 1827, the trustees resolved upon the 
establishment of a grammar school under the superintendence 
of the faculty of the college; which resolution was carried into 
effect early the following year; and, in 1829, a building was 
erected upon the college ground for the accommodation of schol- 
ars. The school was discontinued in 1863. 

In October, of the year 1829, Dr. Harris, the President of 
the college, died; and, on the 9tli of December following, Wm. 
A. Duer, LL.D., was elected in his room. 

With a view of rendering tlie benefits of education more 
generally accessible to the community, the system of instruction, 
at the commencement of the year 1830, underwent very exten- 
sive additions and modifications, and the time of daily attend- 
ance upon the j^rofessors was materially increased. The 
course of study in existence at the time of making these 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 13 

additions was kept entire, and was denominated the full 
course. 

Another course of instruction was established, denominated 
the scientific and literary course; which latter was open to 
others besides matriculated students, and to such an extent as 
they might think proper to attend. 

On a revision of the statutes in the year 1836, both courses of 
study pursued in the college were further enlarged ; and the lit- 
erary and scientific course, in particular, defined and materially 
extended. And in order that this course, as well as the scientific 
branches of the full course, might be conducted in the most ef- 
ficient manner, the trustees appropriated the sum of ten thou- 
sand dollars for the purchase of additional apparatus, as well as 
for adding to the library the requisite books of reference and 
illustration. 

The literary and scientific course, however, as distinguished 
from the full course, did not appear to find favor with the public, 
and upon a revision of the statutes, in the year 1843, was dis- 
continued. 

Among other important changes made on this same occasion 
was the adoption of the German language and literature as part 
of the , sub-graduate course, and the establishment of the 
G-ebhard professorship thereof, upon the endowment made 
by the last will and testament of Frederick Gebhard, 
Esquire. 

In April, 1842, Wm. A. Duer, LL.D., resigned his office of 
president, and in the following month of August, Nathaniel F. 
Moore, LL.D., was elected in his place. President Moore hav- 
ing resigned his office in 1849, Charles King, LL.D., was chosen 
in his place in November of that year. 

In 1854, the subjects of the removal of the college, and the 
expediency of establishing a system of university instruction, 
were considered by the trustees, and the body of j)rofessors 
having in view such a system was greatly enlarged. 

In May, 185Y, the college was removed from its old position, 
on Park place, to where it now stands, in East Forty-ninth street, 
between Madison and Fourth avenues. 

On the iVthof May, 1858, a department of law was established, 



14 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

under the name of " The Law School of Columbia College," and 
a Faculty of law appointed. 

In 1860, by an arrangement with the Regents of the Univer- 
sity, and the sanction of the legislature, a union was effected 
with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, by which that 
institution was adopted as the medical department of the col- 
lege. 

In 1863, the necessary measures were commenced for organiz- 
ing a department of science; and in the following year a Facul- 
ty of the School of Mines was appointed, which school is now in 
successful operation. In this institution instruction is given in 
five regular courses of scientific study, viz., Mining Engineering, 
Civil Engineering, Metallurgy, Geology and Palseontology, 
and Analytic and Applied Chemistry. Special students in 
science have also been received hitherto, but will not hereafter 
be admitted. 

In the year 1864, Dr. King resigned the presidency of the 
college, and the Rev. Frederick A. P. Barnard, S.T.D., LL.D., 
sometime Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, was chosen 
to fill his place. 

In 1868, as a mark of respect to the late Professors Moore 
and Anthon, two prizes in Greek, of the respective value of $300 
and |150, to be competed for by members of the Junior Class, 
by an examination upon an entire play of JEsch^'lus, Sophocles, 
or Euripides, not read in the college course, were established by 
the Trustees. 

In 18*71, two Fellowships in Literature and Science, ojjen upon 
certain conditions to the graduating class, each of the annual 
value of $500, to be held for three years, were instituted; 
and, at the same time, six Scholarshij^s in Classics and Mathe- 
matics were established in the Freshman and Sophomore 
Classes, and the like number in the Junior Class, in Latin, in 
Logic and English Literature, in History and Rhetoric, in 
Chemistry, in Mechanics, and in Physics. Subsequently this 
scheme was remodelled by dividing the scholarshijis in the 
Sophomore and Freshman Classes, by adding in the latter class 
a Scholarship in Rhetoric, by transferring from the Junior Class 
to the Sophomore the Scholarship in Chemistry, and adding in 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OP COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 15 

the Junior Class a Scholarship in Greek, and by so re-arrang- 
ing the whole as to make fourteen instead of twelve, each of 
the annual value of one hundred dollars. 

In 1874, a new building for the School of Mines w<is erected 
at a cost of 1150,000, and fitted up with every convenience for 
the purposes of the school. 

In 1879, a new building, with a frontage of two hundred feet 
on Madison Avenue and a depth of about sixty feet, was erected 
for the School of Arts at a cost of over |200,000. 

In June, 1880, the Trustees provided for the establishment of 
a School of Political Science, the purpose of which is to give a 
complete general view of all the subjects both of internal and 
external public polity from the threefold standpoint of History, 
Law, and Philosophy. The school will be opened October 4, 
1880. 

At the same time provision was mide by which instruction 
will hereafter be offered in the College to graduates of this and 
other colleges in Greek, Latin, the Pure Mathematics, Astro- 
nomy Theoretical and Practical, Methods of Research in Physics, 
Methods of Research in Chemistry, Philosophy, History, Politi- 
cal Economy, English Literature, the Anglo-Saxon Language 
and Literature, French Literature, Spanish Literature, Italian 
Literature, German Literature, the Sanskrit Language and Litera- 
ture, and the Icelandic Language and Literature. 

And also, as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made 
for the purpose, in the Hebrew Language and Literature, Na- 
tural Theology and the Evidences of Christianity, Comparative 
Philology, Natural History in its several branches, and the 
Principles of the Common Law. 

The lecture courses of the School of Mines in certain subjects 
will likewise be open to graduate students, embracing General, 
Theoretic and Applied Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Geology, 
Palaeontology, Mineralogy, and Crystallography. 

The Trustees, at the same meeting, further 

Hesolved, That from and after the close of the present aca- 
demic year, undergraduate students, who shall have satisfac- 



16 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

torily completed the regular course of sophomore study, may be 
permitted to elect from among the subjects of study taught in 
College such as they prefer to pursue during the remaining 
years of the course, and to these elective studies may be added 
German, French, Spanish, and Italian : subject to the condition 
that they shall attend all the exercises in History, Political 
Economy, and the English Language and Literature, belonging 
*to the regular course in Arts for those years; and further, that 
the studies so selected shall suffice, along with those above 
specified as obligatory, to occupy at least fifteen hours per 
week. 

Besolved, That students shall be entitled to receive, at the 
close of the course of four years' study, on satisfactory examina- 
tion and the recommendation of the Faculty, the degree of 
Bachelor of Letters, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Arts, 
according to the character of the studies chiefly pursued by 
them. 

Resolved, That the time given to Roman Antiquities in the 
present scheme of undergraduate study, being two hours per 
week during the freshman year, be hereafter devoted to French, 
German, Italian, or Spanish, at the option of the student ; and 
that the time given to Anglo-Saxon, in the same scheme, being 
one hour per week during the sophomore year, be hereafter 
devoted to any one of the languages above mentioned, or to 
Anglo-Saxon, also at the option of the student. 

Columbia College has, at the present time, a School of Arts, 
a School of Mines, a School of Law, a School of Political 
Science, and a School of Medicine, emjiloying a president and 
one hundred professors and other instructors, and in all the 
departments fifteen hundred students. 

Columbia College, June, 1880. 



STATUTES 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT, 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the President to take charge and 
have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of the grounds 
adjacent thereto, and of its movable property upon the same. To 
see that the course of instruction and discipline prescribed by the 
statutes is faithfully pursued, and to prevent and rectify all 
deviations from the same. 

To call meetings of the Faculty, and to give such directions 
and perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the in- 
terests of the college, so that they do not contravene the char- 
ter, the statutes, the orders of the Trustees, or the decisions of 
the Board of the College. 

To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep himself 
informed of the manner in which the classes are taught. 

To report to the Trustees annually, at the stated meeting in 
May, and as occasion shall require, the state of the college and 
the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and par- 
ticularly the manner in which the several Professors and Tutors 
perform their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence from the 
college for a reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he 
shall judge the occasion may require : provided that when such 



18 OF TUE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

leave of absence exceeds two clays, it be entered upon the min- 
utes of the Board of the College. 

§ 3. He shall preside at commencements and at all meetings 
of the Board, and shall sign all diplomas. 

§ 4. He shall assemble the classes every day except Saturday 
and Sunday, at half -past nine o'clock a.m., for the purpose of 
attending prayers; and at these daily prayers it shall be the 
duty of each of the members of the Board to be present, unless 
his presence shall be dispensed with by the President. 

§ 5. In the absence or sickness of the President, the Senior 
Professor, who shall be in the regular performance of his duties, 
shall have authority to perform the duties and exercise the au- 
thority of the President. 



CHAPTER II. 

OP THE BOARD OP THE COLLEGE. 

§ 1. The President and the Professors engaged in the sub- 
graduate course of instruction shall constitute the Board of the 
College. Professors of modern languages shall have seats at the 
Board only when the conduct or proficiency of students in their 
respective departments shall be in question, and they may be 
heard and vote thereon. Tutors shall have seats at the Board 
on all occasions when the conduct or proficiency of the students 
under their charge, in the departments in which they respectively 
give instruction, shall be in question, but on no other occasion ; 
but they shall have no vote. 

§ 2. The Professors shall take precedence according to the 
date of their appointments. 



OF THE BOARD OP THE COLLEGE. 19 

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the Professors and Tutors to as- 
sist the President with their counsel and co-operation. 

§ 4. The Board shall have power : 

To try offences committed by the students ; 

To determine their relative standing ; 

To adjudge rewards and punishments, and to make all such 
regulations of their own proceedings and for the better execu- 
tion of the college system as shall not contravene the charter of 
the college, nor the statutes, nor any order of the Trustees. 

§ 5. The concurrence of the President shall be necessary to 
every act of the Board; and in case the Board shall be equally 
divided, the President shall have a casting vote in addition to 
his vote as a member of the Board. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the President, the Senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meeting of the Board, and all 
acts of the Board thus constituted shall be valid unless the Presi- 
dent shall, at the next subsequent stated meeting at which he 
shall be present, express his dissent, either personally or in 
writing. 

§ 7. Upon any resolution, duly seconded, a vote shall be taken 
if desired by the mover. When the President dissents from the 
vote of the majority of the Board, such vote and such dissent 
shall be recorded in the minutes. 

§ 8. The Board shall meet for the purpose of administering 
the general discipline of the college once in each week, except in 
vacation. At these meetings the Professors shall report concern- 
ing the conduct and proficiency of the members of the respective 
classes, noting particularly those who have been delinquent in 
their behavior or attendance, or deficient or negligent in their 
recitations, with the number of their absences. 



20 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 9. The Board shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and 
shall appoint one of their own number to perform that duty. 

§ 10. In those minutes shall be noted the names of the mem- 
bers present and absent at each meeting. It shall be the duty 
of the President to cause such minutes to be laid before the 
Trustees at their meetings. 

§ 11. No member of the Board of the College, or of the 
Faculty of the School of Mines, and no other officer engaged in 
instruction, shail be employed in any occupation which shall in- 
terfere with the thorough, efficient, and earnest performance of 
the duties of his office. 



CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§' 1. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students in 
College, to be called the Freshman Class, the Sophomore Class, 
the Junior Class, and the Senior Class. The course of study of 
each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire coiirse 
four years. 

§ 2. The Freshman Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, Grecian History and Roman Antiquities, 
Rhetoric, and the more elementary branches of the Pure Mathe- 
matics. 

§ 3. The Sophomore Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, Roman History and Grecian Antiquities, 
Modern History, English Literature, Chemistry, and the remain- 
ing branches of Pure Mathematics usually taught in colleges, 
except Analytical Geometry and the Differential and Integral 
Calculus. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 21 

§ 4. The Junior Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Grreek Languages, History of Literature, Logic, ^Esthetics, 
Modern History, Analytical Geometry, Mechanics, and Physics. 

§ 5. During the Senior year, instruction shall be given in 
Astronomy, Physics, Political Economy, Constitutional Govern- 
ment, Geology and Mineralogy, the Latin and Greek Languages 
and Literature, History of Philosophy, Psychology, Theoretic, 
Analytic or Applied Chemistry, and the Differential and Integral 
Calculus. 

§ 6. In each of the four years the student shall be exercised 
in English Composition, and during the first three years in Latin 
and Greek Composition also, and in Elocution. 

§ 7. Instruction shall be given to students who may desire it, 
in the German Language and its Literature, and in such other 
modern Languages as the Board of Trustees may see fit to 
direct. 

§ 8. A plan of the course, specifying more in detail the stud- 
ies to be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall be prepared by the Board of the College, sub- 
ject to the approval of the Board of Trustees ; and this plan 
after having been so approved, shall be published. 

§ 9. The Trustees shall assign to each Professor or other in- 
structor such proportion of the time of the classes as may seem 
to them judicious ; and the Faculty shall prepare, in conformity 
with this allotment, such a scheme of daily instruction as shall 
appear to be best adapted to promote the advancement of the 
students in their various studies. 

§ 10. The text-books to be used by the classes may be selected 
by the Professors in their several departments, with the approval 



22 OF ADMISSION. 

of the President, and with the reserved right of control by the 
Board of Trustees. 

§ 11. The hours of instruction at the college shall be the four 
in each day which immediately follow the morning exercises of 
tRe chapel, or so many of them, not less than three, as it may 
be found practicable to emjDloy, and such other hours as the 
Trustees may at any time hereafter assign; and during those 
hours, the classes severally, or their several sections, shall attend 
such instructors as shall be prescribed in the scheme of daily 
instruction, or as the Board of the College may direct, and in 
the order which may be so determined. 

§ 12, No Professor or other officer of the college shall excuse 
a class or section from assembling at the time and place ap- 
pointed for lecture or recitation, or dismiss a class or section 
after it may have assembled before the expiration of the 
time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of the Presi- 
dent ; nor, without such consent, shall any class or section be 
excused from the performance of any exercise required of them 
by law ; but individual students may, for satisfactory reasons, 
be excused from such performance, by the officers to whom they 
are due. 



CHAPTER IV. 



or ADMISSION, 



§ 1. As a general rule, no student shall be admitted to the 
Freshman Class, at its formation, unless he shall have attained 
the age of fifteen years ; nor shall any one be admitted 
to a more advanced standing without a corresponding increase 
of age ; but this rule may be dispensed with where, in the 
opinion of the Faculty, there are sufficient reasons to justify its 
relaxation. 



OF ADMISSION. 23 

§ 2. Every applicant for admission to the Freshman Class shall 
be examined in the English, Latin, and Greek Grammars, Latin 
Prosody and Composition, Ancient and Modern Geography, 
Arithmetic, and so much of Algebra and Geometry, and such 
authors in Greek and Latin, as the Board of the College may 
prescribe. All the requisitions for admission shall be annually 
published, and the Board of the College shall have power, from 
time to time, with the concurrence of the Trustees, to modify 
these requisitions as the exigencies of the college may seem to 
require. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies, as well as upon those enumerated in the foregoing section; 
' nor, in case he shall have been previously a member of another 
college, without a certificate from such college of his discharge 
in good standing. 

§ 4. Every student admitted to the college will be required 
immediately upon his admission, and subsequently at the begin- 
ning of each succeeding academical year, to write in the matric- 
ulation book of the college his own name, and the name, place 
of abode, and post-office of his father or guardian. 

§ 5. None but matriculated students or graduates of the 
college shall be allowed to attend any of the classes without the 
special permission of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 6. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation. 

§ v. An honorable discharge shall always be granted to any 
student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw from the 
college ; but no undergraduate student shall be entitled to a dis- 
charge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given in 
writing to the President. 



24 OF ATTENDANCE. 

§ 8. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to the 
college, he shall be presented with a copy of these statutes, and 
of any printed rules or by-laws made under them for the 
government of the students by the Board of the College ; and 
another copy of the same shall be sent or delivered to his parent 
or guardian. 



CHAPTER V. 



OP ATTENDANCE. 



§ 1. The attendance of the students upon all college exer- 
cises shall be obligatory, and shall be enforced by the Board of 
the College under suitable penalties. 

§ 2. Irregularities in attendance shall be reported to the Pre- 
sident, whose duty it shall be from time to time, as occasion may 
in his Judgment require, report such irregularities to the parent 
or guardian of the student in fault. 



OF DISCIPLNIB. 25 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DISCIPLINE 



§ 1. Cases of misconduct on the part of students shall be 
referred in the first instance to the President. 



§ 2. Any member of the Faculty may summon a student to 
appear before the Board of the College, and in such case he shall 
immediately report the facts of the case to the President. 

§ 3. In case any member of a class under instruction disturb 
the class exercises, the Professor may require such student to 
leave the room ; and the student shall thereupon forthwith re- 
port himself to the President. 

§ 4. All sentences of the Board adjudging punishments shall 
be reduced to writing before they are pronounced, and the stu- 
dents whom they aifect shall be cited to hear the same read in 
the presence of the Board alone. 

§ 5. If it appear to the Board that the members of a class, 
or any number of them, have entered into a combination to 
avoid collegiate duties, or to violate any of the statutes, or any 
regulation of the Board, any one or more of those embraced in 
such combination may be proceeded against separately. 

§ 6. No student shall be a member of any professional school 
during his academic course. 



26 OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 

CHAPTER VII. 

OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 

§ 1. Each Professor or other instructor shall make to the 
President a monthly report of the names of such students as 
may be deficient in his department ; and shall also report daily 
those who may have been unprepared to recite, or who may 
have made absolute failure in attempting to recite. The Presi- 
dent shall immediately notify each student reported as deficient, 
of the fact of such report. 

By deficiency, is here meant such a degree of imperfection in 
attainment as is likely, if not removed, to prevent the recom- 
mendation of the student for his degree, at the close of the 
academic course. 

§ 2. Each Professor, or other instructor, shall report to the 
President, at the end of every month after the first month of each 
year, a numerical scale of the standing of all the students under 
his instruction, according to a standard prescribed by the Board 
of the College — the order of merit to be determined by examina- 
tion conducted in any manner which the Professor may choose 

§ 3. Besides the monthly examinations provided for in the 
foregoing section, there shall be two public examinations of all 
the classes every year — the one to commence on the last Mon- 
day in January, and the other on the Monday of the third week 
preceding Commencement ; which examinations shall severally 
extend to all the studies pursued during the session immediately 
preceding. Each of these examinations shall have a weight in 
the determination of scholarship equal to that of all the monthly 
examinations of the term. The Senior Class may be excused 
from attendance at College during the week preceding their 
final examination. 

§ 4. The Board of the College shall prescribe such rules as 
may be necessary to make the examinations a true and impartial 



OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 27 

test of the attainments of the students ; and any one who shall 
be found to have willfully violated these rules, or any of them, 
shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the College. 

§ 5, The sum total of all the valuations assigned to the per- 
formances of each student in any department, in the monthly 
and semi-annual reports, estimated as above, shall be taken to 
express the value of the student's scholarship in said depart- 
ment. These results shall only be used to ascertain the stu- 
dent's proficiency, and shall not be made public ; but the Presi- 
dent may give to the parent or guardian of any student the par- 
ticulars embraced in them, so far as that student is concerned. 

§ 6. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same 
department in more than one monthly report, may be required 
to study with a private tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, 
and to pass a rigorous examination on the same, at a time to be 
appointed by the Board of the College, or shall no longer be per- 
mitted to be a candidate for a degree. 

§ 1. No student who, after the close of the first session of the 
Senior year, shall be found not to have made good all the deficien- 
cies which may have been recorded against hin\J.n the previous 
yearsTlshall be any longer a candidate for a degree in Arts, unless 
reasons shall appear, satisfactory to the Board of the College, 
to account for his failure. 

§ 8. Every student, whose record of scholarship shall be 
found at the close of the academic course to be fair, shall be en- 
titled to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Arts. If there be any one against whom 
there shall appear a record of deficiency not subsequently made 
good, in regard to which the Board of the College are satisfied 
that there has been no culpable neglect of duty, such student 
may, in the discretion of the Board, be recommended for a de- 
gree speciali gratia y and every student who may fail of such 



28 OK ACADEMIC HONORS. 

recommendation shall be entitled to a certificate stating the du- 
ration of his attendance and the degree of his attainment. 

§ 9. Previously to each public examination, notice shall be 
given in two of the daily papers published in the city, of the 
time "when the examination is to commence; and the Regents of 
the University, the Trustees of the college, the parents, and 
guardians of students, and such other persons as the President 
may think proper so to distinguish, shall be invited to attend. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



OF ACADEMIC HONORS. 



§ 1. At the close of the Senior year the results of all the 
monthly, intermediate, and concluding examinations of all the 
four years shall be combined, by adding together the valuations 
assigned to the performances of each student severally in such 
examinations ; and upon the basis of the totals thus ascertained 
all academic honors shall be awarded. 

§ 2. The Board of the College sliall determine what propor- 
tion of the maximum of values obtainable shall entitle a student 
to be included in the honor list. All those students whose to- 
tals amount to, or exceed, the proportion thus determined, 
shall be divided into three groups, to be styled the first, the sec- 
ond, and the third classes of honor ; and the Board shall pre- 
scribe the proportion which shall entitle a student to be enrolled 
in these classes severally. 

§ 3. In the allotment of parts in the literary exercises of the 
Commencement, preference shall always be given to those 
members of the graduating class whose names are included in 
the honor list, and if the number of these shall be sufiicient no 
others shall be selected. 



OP COMMENCEMENTS. 29 



CHAPTER IX. 

OF COMMENCEMENTS. 

§ 1. There shall be an Annual Commencement on the second 
Wednesday in June, when academical degrees shall be conferred, 
and orations shall be delivered by members of the graduating 
class, who shall have been selected after the final examination by 
the Board of the College, with reference to their standing in the 
class, and their capacity to acquit themselves creditably at the 
Commencement, viz.: 

One Greek salutatory and oration or poem ; 

One Latin oration or poem ; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 

of the School of Mines ; 
Two English orations by members of the graduating class 

of the College ; 
And a Valedictory. 

But a poem in English, or a German oration, may be substi- 
tuted for either of the English orations, 

§ 2. The English orations provided for in the foregoing sec- 
tion shall be prepared under the following general regulation: 

Members of every Senior class shall be required, as a condition 
of graduation, to prepare and present to the President, and in 
conformity with the directions which he may prescribe, on or 
before the first day of May in the Senior year, a written essay, 
dissertation, oration, or poem suitable to be pronounced before 
a public audience; and after the speakers shall have, been se- 
lected for Commencement, such speakers shall be allowed to 
deliver in public, on Commencement day, the compositions 
prepared as above directed, except such as may have speeches 



30 OF COMMENCEMENTS. 

assigned them in languages other than the English, or shall be 
duly appointed to deliver salutatory or valedictory addresses. 

§ 3. All such orations shall be subject to criticism by the 
President ; and the student who shall refuse or neglect to adopt 
the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who 
shall deliver his oration or exercise otherwise than is approved 
by the President, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 4. Any student neglecting or refusing to perform the part 
assigned to him, shall not receive his degi'ee. 

§ 5. No alumnus of this college shall receive the degree of 
Master of Arts in less than three years after the date of his 
first diploma ; nor then, unless he shall have made such literary 
progress as, in the judgment of the Board, shall entitle him 
thereto.* The President may assign to one or more of the 
alumni of the college who may apply for a degree of Master of 
Arts, such orations or exercises as he may deem expedient ; which 
orations or exercises shall be delivered the last in the order of 
the day, the valedictory oration excepted ; but no oration or 
exercise shall be delivered unless approved by the President. 

§ 6. No person of immoral character shall be admitted to the 
honors of this college. 

§ 1. Each candidate for the degree of Bachelor or Master 
of Arts shall, before the same is conferred, discharge all his 
liabilities to the college, and also pay the fee prescribed for his 
diploma. 

§ 8. A committee of the Trustees, to be annually appointed 
for that purpose, shall, together with the President, make all 
further requisite arrangements for the annual commencements. 

* The followinj^ rosolution was adopted by tlie Board of Trustees, April 15, 1878 : 
'■'■ Resolved, that after th(; animal eoiniiieneement of June, 1880, the degree of 
Master of Arts, in course, sluill not lie oonferi«»fl exueiit upon Bat^helors of Arts, of 
this College, of three years' standiiifr or more, who shall have passed an approved 
examination, upon studies to be presei'ibed by the Faculty, with the approval of the 
Trustees; such e-vamination to be held at some convenient time within the month 
next preceding- eacli annual commeucement." 



OF VACATIONS AND THE LIBRARY. 31 

CHAPTER X. 

OF VACATIONS. 

§1. There shall be a vacation of all the classes, from the 
second Wednesday in June until the Saturday preceding the 
first Monday in October, on which latter day the regular course 
of study shall commence. 

§ 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures on 
Ash- Wednesday, Good-Friday, Easter-Monday, on public Holi- 
days established by law, and on such days in each year as may 
be recommended by the civil authority to be observed as days 
of fast or thanksgiving ; and two weeks, commencing with the 
fourth Monday in December, unless the fourth Monday shall fall 
later than the twenty-sixth day of the month, and in that case 
commencing with the third Monday. 

§ 3, The President may, in extraordinary cases, grant an in- 
termission for other days, not exceeding one day at any one 
time ; and it shall be his duty always to report the same at the 
next succeeding meeting of the Trustees, together with the ob- 
ject and reason for granting such intermission. 



CHAPTER XI. 

OF THE LIBRARY, 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take special 
care and charge of the books and other property of the library, 
in conformity with such regulations as the Board of Trustees 
or the library committee shall adopt ; and, in general, to see 
that the regulations are faithfully observed. He shall report in 
writing to the library committee, without delay, all infractions 
of the rules. 



32 OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 2. The Trustees and officers of tlie College, the students of 
the College and of the School of Mines, such graduates of the 
college residing in the city as may be authorized for the current 
year in writing by the President, and such other persons as may 
be invested with the privilege by the library committee, shall 
have access to the college library, and be permitted to take 
books therefrom, in conformity with such regulations as may be 
duly established by the Board of Trustees or its library com- 
mittee. 

§ 3. The Librarian shall, annually, on the third Tuesday in 
June, lay before the President and the library committee a writ- 
ten statement, in duplicate, of the condition of the library, to- 
gether with the names of those who on that day retain books or 
other property of the library, as also the names of those who 
are in any way in default as regards the library. 

§ 4. No officer or student of the collegie, or other persons, 
shall take from the library any book or periodical, unless in 
conformity with the regulations, and in the presence of the 
Librarian, or his assistant duly appointed, who shall at the time 
enter the title of such book or periodical, the name of the 
person taking it, and the date, in a register provided for that 
purpose. 

§ 5. No books shall be taken from the library during the in- 
terval between the third Tuesday of June and the end of the 
summer vacation, except such as may be taken by members of 
the Board of the College, in conformity with the regulations. 



CHAPTER XII. 

OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 1. The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall be 
entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, four 
students, to be instructed free of charge. 



OF FOUNDATIONS. ' 33 

§ 2. The Society for promoting religion and learning in the 
State of New York shall be entitled to have always, in the un- 
dergraduate department, two students in each class, to be in- 
structed free of charge. 

§ 3. The members of the Board of the College, and the Pro- 
fessors of the School of Mines and of the Law School, shall be 
entitled to have their sons educated, free of charge, in the un- 
dergraduate department, in the School of Mines, or in the Law 
School. . ^ 

§ 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations of 
the Trustees in regard to free tuition. 

§ 5. All free scholarships, except those granted under this 
statute and those acquired under the present or former statutes 
of this college, by the endowment of such scholarships, are 
abolished. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

OF FOUNDATIONS 



§ 1. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship by 
the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the Treas- 
urer of the college, shall be entitled to have always one student 
educated in the college free of all charges for tuition. This 
right may be transferred to others. The scholarship shall bear 
such name as the founder or founders may designate. 

§ 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professorship 
in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical science, or 
in the literature of any of the ancient or modern languages, by 
the payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars to 
the Treasurer of the college, shall forever have the right of 
nominating a Professor for the same, subject to the approbation 



34 OF FOUNDATIONS. 

of the Board of Trustees, who shall hold his office by the same 
tenure as the other professors of the college; — the nomination 
to be made by the person or persons who shall make endowment, 
or such person or persons as he " or they may designate. The 
proceeds of the endowment shall be appropriated to the salary 
of the Professor. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF MINES, 

(As Amended February 5, and .June 4, 1877.) 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDE NT. 



The President of the College is the President of the Faculty 
of the School of Mines. He shall preside at the meetings, when 
present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE FACULTY OP THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

§ 1. The Faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of the 
President, and the Professors engaged in the subgraduate course 
of instruction. 

§ 2. The instruction shall be conducted by the above Pro- 
fessors, and such assistants and lecturers as have been or may 
hereafter be appointed under the authority of the Trustees. 

§ 3. The Faculty shall have power to make such regulations 
for the management of the School of Mines as shall not con- 
travene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any 
order of the Trustees. 



■^6 , (*F ADMISSION. 

§ 4. The concurrence of the President sliall be necessary to 
every act of the Faculty. 

§ 5. The Faculty shall be authorized to elect a Dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such duties 
as the President may delegate to him. 

§ 6, In case of the absence of the President, the senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the Board ; but 
no act of the Board thus constituted shall be valid, until • ap- 
proved by the President. 

§ 1. The Board shall hold stated meetings at least once a 
month during term-time, and shall keep a book of minutes of 
its proceedings, to be submitted by the President to the Trustees 
at their meetings. 



CHAPTER III. 



OP A DM I S S I O N . 



§ 1. Candidates for admission to the First Class, at its for- 
mation, must be of the age of seventeen years, complete ; and, 
for admission to advanced standing, there will be required a 
corresponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed 
with in cases of unusual proficiency on the part of applicants, 
or for other reasons of weight. 

§ 2. The requisitions for admission shall be prescribed by 
the Faculty of the School, subject to the approval of the Board 
of Trustees ; and all the requisitions for admission shall be an- 
nually published. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies whicli have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies ; but graduates and students of colleges and schools of 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 37 

science, who shall have completed so much of the course of 
study as shall be equivalent to the requirements for admission 
to the School, may be admitted at the beginning of the second 
year, or earlier, without examination, on presenting diplomas 
or certificates of good standing and honorable dismissal, satis- 
factory to the examining officers. 

§ 4. None but students regularly entered as members of the 
School shall be allowed to attend the classes without permission 
of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 5. Tuition fees must be paid at entrance, and subsequently 
at the beginning of each session, before the student takes his 
place in his class, unless the time of paj^ment be extended by 
the President and Treasurer. 



CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE COURSE OP STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be four classes of Students in the School, to 
be distinguished as the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Classes. 
The coui'se of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year; 
and the entire course, four years. 

§ 2. During the First year, instruction shall be given in 
Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Mensuration ; in Ele- 
mentary Physics ; in Cbemistry, Inorganic and Organic ; in 
Botanj", in French, in German, and in Drawing. 



38 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 3. Instruction in the Second year sliall comprise Analyti- 
cal Geometry, Calculus, Descriptive Geometry, Shades, Shad- 
ows, and Perspective ; Surveying, Tlieoretical Chemistry, 
Qualitative Analysis, Stoichiometry ; Determinative Mineral- 
ogy, Qualitative Blow-pipe Analysis, and Crystallography ; 
Zoology, French and German. 

§ 4. In the Third year instruction shall be given in Me- 
chanics, Quantitative Analysis, Mineralogy, and Quantitative 
Blow-pipe Analysis ; in the Principles of Engineering, and 
their applications to works of Civil and Mining Engineering ; 
in Mathematical Physics ; in Applied Chemistry ; in Metal- 
lurgy, Geology and Surveying. * 

§ 5. In the Fourth year instruction shall embrace the Prin- 
ciples, Construction and Management of Machines and Engines; 
Mining and Civil Engineering ; Applied Chemistry ; Economic 
Geology ; Geodesy and Surveying ; Practical Mining ; Ore 
Dressing and Assaying. 

§ 6. The subjects of study enumerated in the foregoing 
sections shall be so grouped as to form five independent 
courses of instruction, viz., a Course in Civil Engineei'ing, a 
Course in Mining Engineering, a Course in Metallurgy, a 
Course in Geology and Palaeontology, and a Course in 
Analytical and Applied Chemistry. During the first session 
of the First Year, the instruction given to all the students of 
that year shall be identically the same ; at the beginning of 
the second session, each student shall elect which of the five 
courses above mentioned he intends to pursue, and after having 
made his election, he shall not be permitted to abandon the 
course chosen in order to take up another, or to become a special 
student, without the consent of the Faculty, to be given only 
for reasons of weight. 

§ 7. In all studies which are common to two or more 
courses of instruction, the students electing those courses may 
be instructed in common ; but no student shall be a candidate 
for tw^o different degrees at the same time. 



OF THE PEOFICIENCT OP STUDENTS. 39 

§ 8. In each, of the four years, students shall be required 
to practice in Drawing and in Chemical Analysis as the 
exigencies of the course they are pursuing may require, and 
in the Second, Third and Fourth years they shall be similarly 
practiced in surveying in the open air, when the weather and 
their other scholastic engagements will allow. During the 
vacation following the close of the Third year, students of 
Mining Engineering shall engage in actual work in mines, under 
the superintendence of the Adjunct Professor of Surveying and. 
Practical Mining. 

§ 9. A plan of the several courses, specifying more in detail 
the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each department 
of instruction, shall be established by resolution of the Board of 
Trustees, and published. 



CHAPTER V. 

OF THE PEOFICIENCY OF STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. 

§ 1. Every Professor shall report to the Dean of the School, 
at the end of every month, a numerical scale of standing in 
scholarship of all the students under his instruction, according 
to a standard prescribed by the Faculty, the order of merit to 
be determined by examination. 

§ 2. The Faculty may prescribe such rules as may be neces- 
sary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the 
attainments of the students ; and any one wbo shall be found to 
have willfully violated these rules, or any part of them, shall be 
liable to be dropped from the roll of the School. 

3. Any student who, upon examination in any subject, shall 
have been pronounced deficient, shall be required to study the 
same subjects again, and to pass, at a time appointed by the 
Faculty, a satisfactory examination on the same, failing in 
which, he shall cease to be a candidate for a degree. 



40 OF DISCIPLINE AND PEES FOR TUITION. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DISCIPLINE, 



§ 1. In case of misconduct in a student, unless the offence be 
so flagrant as in the judgment of the Professor to require the 
intei'ference of the Faculty, the Professor shall admonish the 
offender, either privately or publicly, and, upon failure of suc- 
cess, may, in his discretion, bring the subject before the Faculty 
of the School. 

§ 2. The punishment of dismission shall be inflicted only by 
an act of the Faculty. 

§ 3. A student whom it may be necessary to bring before the 
Faculty shall have due notice of the time and place of their 
meeting, and shall be allowed to defend himself. 

§ 4. If injury be done to the buildings or other property of 
the college, or any property used by the School of Mines, by 
any student, the Faculty shall have power to impose a pecuniary 
mulct to the extent of the damage ; and, unless such mulct be 
paid, the offending student shall be punished in the discretion 
of the Faculty. 



CHAPTER VII. 



OF FEES FOE TUITION, 



The fees of the School sliall be paid into the treasury of the 
college. 



OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 41 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OP COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 

§ 1. At the annual Commencement, established by Chapter 
IX., § 1, of the Statutes of the College, degrees shall be con- 
ferred on the students of the School who may be entitled to 
receive them, and such students shall be required to attend at 
the Commencement for that purpose. 

§ 2. Among the public exercises of the Commencement 
there shall be two orations by members of the graduating class 
of the School, who shall have been selected by the Faculty of 
the School for their merit and their capacity to acquit them- 
selves creditably in the performance of such exercise. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF LAW 

(As Amended February 7, 1876, and April 15, 1878.) 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT 



The President of the college is the President of the Faculty 
of Law. He shall preside at its meetings, when present, and 
shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER n. 



OF THE WARDEN, 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Warden to take charge and 
care of the building or buildings occupied by the Law School, 
and of the property therein contained; to see that the course 
of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and due discipline 
observed ; to keep himself informed of the manner and efficiency 
of instruction in the several departments ; to call special meet- 
ings of the Faculty, and to give such directions and perform 
such acts as shall in his judgment promote tlie interests of the 
school, so that they do not contravene the charter, the statutes, 
the orders of the Trustees, or the decisions of the Faculty of the 
school ; to give to the President of tlie College or to the Com- 



OF THE FACULTY. 43 

mittee on the School of Law, from time to time, any informa- 
tion which he or they may require, as to the condition or admin- 
istration of the school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the 
instruction, or the performance of the duty of any of its officers; 
to report to the Trustees annually, at the stated meeting in Oc- 
tober, jind as occasion shall require, the state of the school, and 
the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and 
particularly the manner in which the several professors perform 
their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence to stu- 
dents for such length of time as be shall judge the occasion may 
require. 

§ 3. He shall preside, in the absence of tbe President of the 
College, at Commencements of the Law School, and shall sign 
all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER III. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

§ 1. The Faculty shall be constituted of the President of 
the College, the Warden, and the Professors of the school. 
• They shall meet statedly once a month during the annual term. 
They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, to be 
submitted to the Trustees of the College at their regular meet- 
ing?, and to the Committee on the School of Law, when called 
for by them. The President, or, in his absence, the Warden, 
or, in the absence of both, the Senior Professor present shall 
preside. 

§ 2. The Faculty shall have power to act upon all cases 
of discipline in their discretion, with power to admonish, 
suspend, dismiss or expel students, if such cases are brought 
before them by the Warden ; to admit students who are grad- 
uates of some college upon certificates of the college authori- 
ties, and those who are not graduates upon the report of the 
examiners. 



44 OF ADMISSIONS. 

§ 3. No act of the Faculty shall be valid, if disappiovcd by 
the President, if present, or by the Warden, such disapproval 
to be noted on its minutes. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF ADMISSIONS 



§ 1. All graduates of literary colleges will be admitted with- 
out examination. Other candidates for admission must be at 
least eighteen years of age, and have received a good aca- 
demic education, including such a knowledge of the Latin 
language as is required for admission to the Freshman class of 
this college. 

§ 2. Candidates for admission, not graduates of literary 
colleges, are required to pass an examination in the outlines of 
Greek and Roman history, history of England and the United 
States (of North America); English Grammar, Rhetoric, and 
the principles of Composition ; in Cresar's Gallic War (entire), 
six Books of Virgil's ^neid, and six Orations of Cicero, or 
other Latin authors deemed by the examiners to be equivalent 
to the above. 

§ 3. Such examination shall be conducted by three examin- 
ers, Alumni of the college, to be appointed by the Committee 
on the School of Law. 

§ 4. The examinations shall begin in the Law School build- 
ing on the Saturday next preceding the first Wednesday in 
October, and shall be oral and in writing. 

§ 5. Students who are not candidates for a degree, may be 
admitted to the Law School without a preliminary examination 
in Latin, provided that none such shall be admitted to the in- 
convenience or overcrowding of the lecture-rooms. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 45 

§ 6. Students being candidates for a degree, who are well 
grounded in the principles of the Latin language, but who have 
not read the entire amount required by Section 2 of this chap- 
ter, may be admitted to tlie Law Schoo!, at the discretion of 
the Faculty, coiiditionally, as candidates for a degree. If such 
deficiency is not made up in one year, they may be allowed to 
join the next Junior Class upon new conditions ; but they shall 
not be allowed to proceed with the Senior Class. 



CHAPTER V. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be two classes of undergraduate students in 
the Law School, to be called respectively the Senior and Junior 
Class. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy 
a year, and the entire course two years. 

§ 2. The annual term in the Law School shall commence on 
the first Wednesday in October in each and every year, and 
shall close on that Wednesday in May which is nearest to the 
fifteenth day of the month. This annual term shall constitute 
the collegiate year. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies to 
be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the Faculty 
of the Law School, subject to the approval of the Committee on 
the School of Law : and this plan, after having been so approved, 
shall be published. 

§ 4. The Warden, in consultation with the Faculty, shall 
have power to arrange the hours for lectures and recitations, as 
well as to select the text-books for the use of the students. 



46 OP DEGREES. 

S 5. Moot Courts shall be held under tlie direction of the 
Faculty, at such titnes as they may deem proper. The mode of 
proceeding and the assignment of students to take part in the 
discussions shall be under the direction of the Warden. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DEGREES, 



§ 1. Every student who shall pass an approved examination 
upon tlie required studies of the course shall be entitled to be 
recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of Bach- 
elor of Laws. Should the student not have attained the age of 
twenty-one years at the time of graduating, the delivery of the 
diploma shall be deferred until he shall have attained that 
age. 

§ 2. A student who shall not have pursued the full course of 
study shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of 
his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be signed 
by the Warden. 



RESOLUTIO NS 



PKOVIDING FOE A 



SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

(Passed June 4, 1860.) 



Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of Columbia College 
hereby adopts the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the 
City of New York as the Medical School of Columbia College. 

JResolved, That the diplomas of the degi-ee of Doctor of 
Medicine shall be conferred by the President of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, sitting with the President of Colum- 
bia College, and shall be signed by the Presidents of the 
respective colleges, and such others of the Faculty as may be 
designated, from time to time, by by-laws or resolutions of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

Resolved, That this connection shall be continued during the 
pleasure of the resf)ective Boards of Trustees of the two col- 
leges, and may be determined by a vote of either Board, and 
notice thereof ffiven to the other Board of Trustees. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIDING FOR A 



SCHOOL OF POLITIC/L SClEltC 



R 



(Passed June 7, 1880.) 



Mesolved, That there be established, to go into operation at 
the ojjening of the academic year next ensuing, a school de- 
signed to prepare young men for the duties of public life, to be 
entitled a School of Political Science, having a definitely pre- 
scribed curriculum of study extending over a period of three 
years, and embracing the History of Philosophy ; the History 
of the Literature of the Political Sciences ; the General Consti- 
tutional History of Europe ; the Special Constitutional History 
of England and the United States ; the Roman Law, and the 
jurisjjrudence of existing codes derived therefrom ; the Com- 
parative Constitutional Law of European States and of the 
United States ; the Comparative Constitutional Law of the dif- 
fei'ent States of the American Union ; the History of Diplomacy; 
International Law ; Systems of Administi'ation, State and Na- 
tional, of the United States ; Comparison* of American and 
European Systems of Administration ; Political Economy, and 
Statistics. 



Resolved, That the qualification required of the candidate for 
admission to this school shall be that he shall have successfully 
pursued a course of undergraduate study in this college, or in 
some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the close 
of the Junior year. 



SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. 49 

Resolved, That students of the school who shall satisfactorily 
complete the studies of the first year shall be entitled, on ex- 
amination and the recommendation of the Faculty, to receive 
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy ; and those who complete 
the entire course of three years shall, on similar examination 
and recommendation, be entitled to receive the degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy. 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Absences to be reported 24 

Academic honors, how determined 28 

Admission, age of 22 

" requisitions for 23 

" School of Law 44 

" School of Mines 36 

Attendance 24 

Board of Trustees 5 

Board of the College, how constituted 18 

" " " powers of . . 19 

" " " meetings of 19 

" " " are to keep minutes 20 

Buildings to be under President's charge 17 

Classes of undergraduates, number and style 20 

" " studies of 20 

" in School of Mines 37 

" in School of Law . . 45 

College of Physicians and Surgeons, adopted as School of Medicine 47 

Combinations, unlawful, how to be treated 25 

Commencement, time of 29, 41 

" allotments of parts at 29, 41 

" exercises at 29,41 

" Committee on 30 

Course of study, outline of : 20 

" " detailed plan to be published 27 

" "in School of Mines 37 

in School of Law 45 

Dean of the School of Mines 36 

Deficiency, what is understood by 26 

Deficient studehts, how to be treated 37, 39 

Degree of Master of Arts, how soon conferred 30 

" " " conditions required for 30 

Degrees, when conferred 29, 41, 46 

" may be forfeited, how 30 

' ' candidates for, must pay all dues 30 

". in School of Mines 41 

" in School of Law 4^ 



11 INDEX. 

PAGE 

Determiiuitiou of standing 38, 39 

Diplomas luust be paid for before delivery :50 

Discharges granted only with consent of parent or gnardian . . 23 

Discipline in the College 25 

' ' in the School of Mines 40 

" in the School of Law 43 

Dnes to College to be paid before Degree is conferred 30 

Examinations, number of 26 

" how to be conducted 26 

" to be advertised 28 

" invitations to be issued for 28 

" in School of Mines 39 

" in School of Law 44,46 

Exercises may be suspended by the President 31 

Faculty of the College, how constituted 18 

" " " their powers and duties 19 

' ' of the School of Mines, how constituted 35 

powers of 35 

" " " " meetings of 36 

" " " " are to keep minutes 36 

" of the School of Law.... .... 43 

" " " " powers of 43 

" " " ' ' meetings of 43 

" " " " are to keep minutes. . 43 

Failures at Recitation, to be reported 26 

Fees of undergraduates 23 

" of students in School of Minea, 37, 40 

Foundations for scholarships 33 

' ' for professorships 33 

Graduates of the College may attend classes 23 

Grounds to be under President's supervision 17 

Historical sketch of Columbia College 7 

Holidays 31 

Honors, Academic, how to be determined 28 

Hours of instruction 22 

Laws, copies of, to be delivered to students 24 

" " to be sent to parents 24 

Law School. See School of Law 

Librai'ian, his duties 31 

" shall report, annually 32 

Library, who shall have use of 32 

" shall be closed during vacation 32 

Masters of Arts, orations by, at Commencement 30 

Matriculation 23 



INDEX. Ill 

PAGE 

Medicine, School of. See School of Medicine. 

Mining School. See School of Mines. 

Physicians and Surgeons, College of, adopted as School of 

Medicine 47 

President of the College, his powers and duties 17 

' ' shall have casting vote in the Board 19 

'' his concurrence necessary to acts of Faculties 19 

" may suspend exercises 31 

Professors, reports to be made by 24, 26 

" to have no occupation interfering with College duties 20 

' ' time of, with the classes 22 

" shall not excuse classes from attendance 22. 

Professorships, how they may be founded 33 

Punishments, sentences to be in writing 25 

Record to be kept of failures, want of preparation 26 

Reports, of President, to Trustees 17 

" " to parents 24 

of Professors 24, 26 

' ' of Librarian 31, 33 

Rolls of merit, how to be constructed 28 

Scholarships, free 32 

" " may be founded, how 33 

School of Lq,w 42 

" President of 42 

" Warden of , 42 

Faculty of 43 

" discipline of 43 

" admission to 44 

School of Mines 35 

" President of 35 

Dean of 36 

Faculty of 34 

admission to 36 

" instruction in 37 

" discipline of 40 

feesof 37,40 

School of Medicine 47 

School of Political Science 48 

Sketch, historical, of Columbia College 7 

Statutes of the College 17 

" " School of Mines 35 

" " School of Law 42 

Students, must matriculate before attending classes 23, 37 

" deficient, or partly deficient, how to be treated 26, 39 



IV INDEX. 

PAGE 

Suspensions of exercises 31 

Text-Books, how to be selected 21 

Trustees of tlie College, names of 5 

Tuition fees, of undergraduates, when payable 23 

" of students in School of Mines 37 

Vacations 31, 45 

"Want of preparation, to be recorded 26 

Warden, of School of Law, his duties 42 

" " " is to report .... 43 

" " " his concurrence necessary to acts of 

Faculty 43 



